<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by Harve Curry</i>
<br />Great pictures Pat from like you said, and unusual angle.
I have a question that may seem dumb. Why is the surcingle so far back?
Is that where the military wanted it?

<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by John Fitzgerald</i>
<br /><blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by Harve Curry</i>
<br />Great pictures Pat from like you said, and unusual angle.
I have a question that may seem dumb. Why is the surcingle so far back?
Is that where the military wanted it?

Pat's right, it's an '04. It also looks like the surcingle is so far back because of the quarter safes. He might be running his surcingle over the safes, and this was the path of least resistance, so to speak.

For myself I run the surcingle leather up front, over the saddle, and the cloth part to the horse. I don't feel the surcingle, the buckle is under the left fender. A breast collar keeps both cinch and surcingle from becoming a bucking strap.
How do you folks rig it?

You can just about read the stted's thoughts, can't you? "Great plan, fellas, hide behind me, then draw a buncha enemy fire. Really smart.Give any thought to hiding behind that truck over there? And you say I have a walnut-sized brain......"